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Dead ReadyNAS NV, what model can I migrate to?
Came home after a trip and my ReadyNAS NV won't turn on. I have 4 perfectly good disks in there. Any advice on how I can migrate the disks (and my data!) safely to another enclosure? Thank you very m...
jhirsch77 wrote:
Thanks for the info. It's a very old model and I'm happy to replace it with a newer model, just not sure which model I can put my hard drives into and have it read the array without wiping everything clean.
Unfortunately you can't simply migrate your disks to any of the current models. The file system and the hardware itself are completely different.
That leaves picking up an inexpensive used unit, or using a PC running linux.
Thanks for the info. It's a very old model and I'm happy to replace it with a newer model, just not sure which model I can put my hard drives into and have it read the array without wiping everything clean. Is such a thing possible?
jhirsch77 wrote:
Thanks for the info. It's a very old model and I'm happy to replace it with a newer model, just not sure which model I can put my hard drives into and have it read the array without wiping everything clean.
Unfortunately you can't simply migrate your disks to any of the current models. The file system and the hardware itself are completely different.
That leaves picking up an inexpensive used unit, or using a PC running linux.
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you! Sad, but good to know. Very, very glad I recently implemented a secondary backup!
If you get a new unit data recovery could be attempted by support but there would be a charge for that.
As your data is backed up you shouldn't need data recovery at this time.
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